Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin lanced this boil fairly quickly and quietly by an announcement to a party meeting on 11 February : ‘ I do not feel justified in advising the party again to submit the proposal for a general tariff to the country except on the clear evidence that on this matter public opinion is disposed to reconsider its judgment of two months ago . ’ |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 3 | The prophet Habbakuk expressed this truth very well when under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit he wrote concerning God ‘ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity . ’ |
| 4 | She knew that Tamar had a core of steel and , though she loved this daughter as devotedly as the rest of her offspring , recognised that there was a degree of hardness in her ! |
| 5 | Boy loved this letter not only because the man it had been sent to shared his new name , but because it was addressed by an older man to a lovelier , younger one . |
| 6 | In a Mediterranean example ( Lavatera latifolia , Malvaceae ) , Hymenoptera delivered more pollen-grain more often than Lepidoptera or Diptera ; Lepidoptera tended to ny longer distances between consecutive flowers than Hymenoptera or Diptera . |
| 7 | They treated each other more carefully than friends usually do , chose each other little gifts , tiny wooden ducks from China , sprays of silk roses , jazz collectors ' tapes . |
| 8 | Simpson could see that they knew each other much better than he 'd presumed . |
| 9 | All the members and friends who kept that stall so amazingly and delectably stocked each day have our admiration and gratitude . |
| 10 | I took this threat rather lightly and for good reason , because some fifteen minutes later he was on the telephone to me talking about a completely different matter , as though the previous conversation had never taken place . |
| 11 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 12 | They performed that task so unskilfully that the wife 's pressures and problems were exacerbated rather than relieved . |
| 13 | The Russian and Irish revolutions stimulated this radicalism still further and the period between 1910 and 1926 has been extensively treated as a potentially revolutionary period.4 Certainly there was a revolution , but it created the Irish Free State rather than the Socialist Commonwealth . |
| 14 | The two priests greeted each other rather coldly and we carried on with our walk . |
| 15 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 16 | Daddy wanted that farm very badly but they did n't have much money between them , so he had to go to the bank and ask for a loan . |
| 17 | When Sophie did these vaccinations in the pet shop Mr Miller held each patient so firmly and expertly that the recipient hardly noticed was was happening until it was over , but in the surgery it was sometimes traumatic . |